Crap Towns / South Yorkshire / Dunscroft and Hatfield
Dunscroft and Hatfield
76/100Crap Score
235th crappest of 984 towns, and 16th in South Yorkshire. Higher scores are crapper.
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Lorry, lorry, smashed shelter, lorry.
Not the Hatfield with the stately home. The Hatfield with the lorries and smashed bus shelters.
Hatfield Chase used to be a royal hunting forest. Now it's a High Street with lorries thundering through and cars going far too fast. Dunscroft was built for the Hatfield Main miners and the pit's long gone. The Crescent has its own anti-social problem.
What's left of the forest keeps getting set on fire. Fires get started on purpose at nearly eight times the typical town's rate, and the grass and woods go up at over fourteen times. Burglary's twice the typical town's. There's 3 pubs and no swimming pool. The kings got out while they could.
What the score is made of
Ten ingredients, each marked out of 100. Higher is crapper.
Dunscroft and Hatfield's 97 for deliberate fires means it's crapper than 97% of towns.
- Deliberate fires97/10044.3 per 10,000 people a year, April 2023 to March 2026
- Criminal damage and arson88/10011.1 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Serious road collisions85/1003.7 per 10,000 people a year, fatal and serious, 2021 to 2025
- Anti-social behaviour78/10021.2 per 1,000 people a year, September 2023 to August 2026
- Food hygiene72/1004.8% rated 0 to 2, of the 62 food businesses with a rating
- Air pollution61/1007.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.3 of fine particles, 2024 average
- Sewage spills38/100148 spill hours per 10,000 people a year, storm overflows within 1 km, 2023 to 2025
- Broadband34/1007.3% of premises can't get gigabit, January 2026, and 3.6% across the Doncaster council area
- Fly-tipping31/1008.0 incidents per 1,000 people a year, Doncaster council area, 2022-23 to 2024-25
- Rain12/100114 days of rain a year, at least 1 mm, 1991 to 2020 average
| Pos | Town | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | Wath upon Dearne | 85 |
| 13 | Swallownest and Aston | 80 |
| 14 | Conisbrough | 79 |
| 15 | Royston | 78 |
| 16 | Dunscroft and Hatfield | 76 |
| 17 | Adwick le Street | 73 |
| 18 | Warmsworth | 70 |
| 19 | Maltby | 65 |
| 20 | Swinton | 61 |
Dunscroft and Hatfield by numbers
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Crime, muck and dodgy water
- 83.2 crimes per 1,000 people a year (September 2023 to August 2026) Worse: 9% higher than the typical town's 76.2
- 1 reports of potholes and bad road surfaces on FixMyStreet, the most reported problem in the year to October 2026 Better: 0.7 per 10,000 people, 79% lower than the typical town's 3.4
What's left on the high street
- 3 pubs on the map here as of 1 October 2026
- 11.1% of takeaways rated 0 to 2 for hygiene (2 of 18) Worse: 2.8x the typical town's 4.0%
- None public swimming pools open Worse: Against the typical English town's 0.7 per 10,000 people
- 2 places on England's Heritage at Risk register
Getting about, getting online, getting rained on
- 11.46pm last bus out on a Wednesday Worse: Earlier than the typical town's 12.14am
- 0.1% of premises can't get superfast broadband (January 2026) Better: 80% lower than the typical town's 0.5%
- 10.2% live more than 400 metres from a park or play space Better: 34% lower than the typical town's 15.5%
- 1,499 hours of sunshine a year (1991 to 2020 average) About the same: About the same as the typical town's 1,532
Doncaster council
Have a crap-off
Dunscroft and Hatfield against your mate's town, and a match ticket to rub it in.
- ?Fly-tippingper 1,000, council area?
- ?Anti-social behaviourper 1,000 people?
- ?Serious road crashesper 10,000 people?
- ?Sewage spillshours per 10,000 people?
- ?Food hygienerated poor?
- ?Criminal damageper 1,000 people?
- ?Dirty airµg/m³?
- ?No gigabitof premises can't get it?
- ?Deliberate firesper 10,000 people?
- ?Raindays a year?
Ten ingredients. One verdict. Who's crapper? The higher Crap Score takes it.